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Author: Jill Odom

Jill Odom is the senior content manager for the National Association of Landscape Professionals.

Top 10 Stories of 2022

We are closing out the year with a look back at our top 10 stories of 2022. If you missed any of these popular stories that offer tips, insights, and feature profiles, now is the time to check them out! 10) Team Building: The Benefits of Conducting Exit Interviews Ideally, you never want your employees […]

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Level Up: Ambler Industries Looks to Add Cultural Fits to Their Team

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Rob Ambler grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit, always thinking of new business ideas and ways to make money. Because his father traveled a lot working for corporate America, Ambler knew he did not want that […]

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Methods for Keeping the Design Pipeline Full Over the Winter

In the landscape industry, it’s natural for things to slow down in the winter as clients think less about their outdoor spaces and bad weather in some areas of the country presents challenges. However, keeping your design pipeline full over the winter season is still possible. While it was more of a struggle to keep […]

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Top 5 Level Up Stories of 2022

The Level Up series is a collection of articles that share the successful strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies reach the next level. Check out some of the most-read stories in this series in 2022. Click on each company’s name to read the full Level Up article. 5) Level Up: Mullin Focuses on […]

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Team Building: Five Ways to Strengthen Your Company Culture

It’s no secret that the main key to lawn and landscape companies successfully recruiting and retaining their employees is strong company culture. Good companies are constantly looking for ways to improve and provide more for their teams. Be Consistent It’s natural to want to test things out before rolling changes out full-scale, but you need […]

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The Bigger Picture with Sales and Marketing with Vanessa McQuade and Rob Murray:Ā Season 3: Episode 31 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 3, episode 31 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke of R.M. Landscape and Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench talk to Vanessa McQuade, senior account executive and owner, and Rob Murray, CEO and co-owner of Intrigue Media, a digital marketing company that has been empowering and growing businesses in the […]

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How I Do It: Keeping Employees On All Season

Since the 1980s, Wonderland Tree Care + Landscapes, based in Oyster Bay, New York, has been able to keep all their staff on during the off-season by providing tree care services. The company started as a tree care company that eventually added landscape services. David Golon, general manager for Wonderland Tree Care + Landscapes, says […]

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Ruppert Landscape Awards $28 Million to Employees After Partnership with Knox Lane

Ruppert Landscape has partnered with Knox Lane, an investment firm that focuses on businesses in the service and consumer sectors. Ruppert’s management team, including CEO Craig Ruppert, will continue to lead the company and remain significant minority owners in the business. ā€œWe are excited to partner with Knox Lane, a strategic move that will enable […]

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Business Smarts: Four Tips for Handling Price Increases

It is a simple fact that it costs significantly more to run your business than it did a few years ago. From fuel and material prices to increased labor rates, you won’t have a profit margin to speak of if you don’t adjust accordingly. Despite this necessity, you might be reluctant to raise prices and […]

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REPLAY: Preparing for the Snowy Season with Brian McNichol

In this replay episode of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Brett Lemcke, VP at R.M. Landscape, Miles Kuperus, systems architect at Include Software, and Neal Glatt, at GrowTheBench, talk to BrianĀ McNichol,Ā sales and operations manager withĀ Snow and Ice Management.Ā  McNichol provides solutions to property managers, facility engineers, and building owners who are worried […]

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